Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:18 pm  

batleyrhino wrote:

If we don’t fill the 3 marquee spots with the signings still to come, we won’t do much better than this year.

Here’s a thought for you. If we win against Cas (x2) and Wakey (x1), we probably make the playoffs. That would suggest the squad was good enough, and its performances over the season (therefore coaching) that’s the problem. I sound like GH don’t I…

We didn't and a squad good enough to scrape into 6th should not be the limit of a club like Leeds ambition!

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:20 pm  

It was tongue in cheek, I know the squad is terrible, just offering a different way of looking at things.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 8:59 pm  

With Salford missing out lets get croft announced...or leave it a couple of weeks for cade cust.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:04 pm  

Just glad we didn’t pander to Austin after a few good games

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:42 pm  

So with our 2023 season finally done !!!

Got a update on after tonight's great win into what a 2024 plans are looking like we obviously know that Lachie Miller, Matt Frawley & Mickael Goudemond are confirmed recruits for 2024 & beyond.

I was told Rowan Milnes didn't want to sign for us after our final offer to him was to be a back up half option and be 3rd choice after Frawley, another new Half we're trying to recruit, Milnes 3rd choice & Sinfield 4th choice.

We also offered Paul Mcshane a 1yr deal which he rejected because he is one of the top earners at Cas and we didn't want to match what he earns there. The reason for this offer was only to help mentor Jarred O'Connor & Corey Johnson which I think was a smart and tactical offer from Leeds as we would have got cap dispensation if we signed Mcshane as he was develop through our academy and was a England International so we would have been entitled to some sort of dispensation if Mcshane signed but nothing came of it.

No update on Nene Macdonald from the club but can't imagine anyway back for him now.

Luke Hooley to Cas is 99% done no dramas with that personally.

I was given some names as to who's on Rohan Smith shortlist for possible signings.

Brodie Croft, Sam Powell, Brenko Lee, Peter Mata'utia, Fa'amanu Brown, Luke Thompson, Charlie Staines, Jai Whitbread.

The club is still trying to land a big name halfback apparently Brodie Croft is our number 1 target.



Finally the club is exploring the option of making Harry Newman a marquee player for next season. This may shock a few with his antics in recent weeks and people in the media recently linking him with a move away from the club but how it was explained to me it sounds like the club know what there doing with this one. So from next year clubs are allowed 3 marquee players as long as 1 is NFT/ British so Newman current contract runs out at end of 2024 season so the club is gonna pay him big money but making him Marquee only 50k of his salary counts on cap but apparently the club is only going to see how many games Newman can get through in 2024 because as we all know his injury record to date is shocking so if he can show his injuries are behind him and he can consistently stay on the pitch hopefully conducting himself properly the club will make him Marquee long term, but if his injuries continue to plague him in 2024 the club won't look at renewing his deal and that could see him leave after 2024 so sounds like it's last chance saloon for Newman to fulfil his potential as a marquee Centre for Leeds.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 9:53 pm  

Interesting. Leeds Live have some quotes from Macdonald, saying he's done nothing wrong, the season was over when he returned to Australia and he's still contracted. Very odd if he thinks all that, but I suppose he could come back next year, although that's in Leeds's court. Just not sure how much trust Smith/GH will have in him. For sure he'll be hard to replace with a player as quick and strong though.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:03 pm  

Land Croft, Lee and Thompson and were talking

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:06 pm  

Once were Loiners wrote:

Interesting. Leeds Live have some quotes from Macdonald, saying he's done nothing wrong, the season was over when he returned to Australia and he's still contracted. Very odd if he thinks all that, but I suppose he could come back next year, although that's in Leeds's court. Just not sure how much trust Smith/GH will have in him. For sure he'll be hard to replace with a player as quick and strong though.

Don’t read too much into it, he’s in legal proceedings he’ll have been briefed to talk this line as a defence that’s all. It doesn’t make any logical sense what he’s saying - it’s legalistic BS I’d say.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:10 pm  

christopher wrote:

Land Croft, Lee and Thompson and were talking

There might be some more NRL players still available yet, it gets crazy over there and sometimes a decent player is left standing.

Not sure about Lee still. See what the club digs up.

Re: Transfer Talk / Rumour thread V4 : Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:22 pm  

Lee is an utter donkey and injury prone.

I can understand Milnes not wanting to come to play as a reserve, but that's his level at KR already. I know the key spots are the most important ones, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to get someone for that role rather than Myler.

Good on Luke Hooley, wherever he ends up. Awful start but he's bounced back to look like a decent full back. Four tries from eight games is pretty good, especially if you discount his debut and the two massive defeats. Personally I'd rather he stayed for depth, but if he's got an offer to be first choice you can't blame him for taking it.